Complete Full Tilt Poker Review

Full Tilt Poker is one of the largest online poker sites around. Originally focussed on the US market, it remains one of the few Internet poker rooms to remain open to US players. Since it opened in 2004, Full Tilt Poker has concentrated on recruiting many of the worlds top players, such as Chris Ferguson, Phil Ivey, Howard Lederer and Jennifer Harman to play at it’s tables.

Full Tilt Poker offers something for everyone, but caters most to players looking for high-stakes, high-speed action, with it’s own super-slick software, and very high stakes tournaments.

The signup bonus at Full Tilt Poker is excellent, offering a full 100% match up to $600. Occasionally Full Tilt Poker runs extra signup promotions as well, but all signup promotions work using a points system, where players earn rebate points depending on how many $ are raked from the pot, plus extra points for every tournament entered.

To keep players coming back, Full Tilt Poker runs a points-based bonus system, which allows players to earn points for every $ that goes into the rake, plus extra points for entering tournaments. In addition for using accumulated points to reclaim the first-deposit bonus, Full Tilt Poker points can be used to gain entry into special tournaments, freerolls or to purchase merchandise from the Full Tilt Poker store.

Where Full Tilt Poker really shines is in the amount and quality of it’s traffic. By remaining open to US players, Full Tilt Poker ensures tens of thousands of players are online at any moment in cash games or tournaments, and the level of play is very strong, particularly in the exciting high stakes games. Newer players, or those just wanting a less challenging game can stick to the lower limit games, plus the newer game-types, as these tend to level the playing field.

Despite the fact that Full Tilt Poker’s software is privately developed, it’s some of the best around. It’s reliable and speedy interface is colourful and clear, with cartoon graphics for player avatars, excellent lobby screens showing average pot size, hands-per-hour, etc, and detailed hand histories that can be saved out for later analysis. Multi-table play is supported for up to 8 tables , and the excellent chat feature even allows you to get advice from top poker pro’s.

Many of Full Tilt Poker’s best promotions are in the form of guaranteed prize pool tournaments, which are run daily, weekly and monthly, with amounts running up to $1mil! In addition Full Tilt Poker offers extra cash reload promotions, and celebrity challenges to spice things up. There are prizes on offer too, for those who climb to the top of Full Tilt’s leaderboards.

The quality and amount of tournaments on offer is a big part of Full Tilt Poker’s attraction for many players. Starting out there is a guaranteed $750k prize pool for tournaments every week, and a $1mil prize pool monthly tournament, in addition there are daily double-jackpot and progressive jackpot games, plus regular weekly tournaments and one-off specials involving professional players. Full Tilt Poker also runs entry tournaments to many of the worlds top poker events.

When it comes to player support Full Tilt Poker only provides email support, but feedback is generally very quick and there is a comprehensive FAQ to answer most players basic questions. It would be better if Full Tilt offered more support options, but really their softwares’ ease-of-use makes in-depth support mostly unnecessary.